“As high as we have mounted in delight,
In our dejection do we sink as low.”
William Wordsworth (1770–1850) English Romantic poet
Stanza 4.
Resolution and Independence (1807)
“On high Backs mounted of the swelling Flood,
At Heaven we tilt, then suddenly we fell,
Watry Foundations sinking low as Hell.”
The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro (2nd ed. 1654), Virgil's Æneis
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Act IV, scene 1.
The Honest Man's Fortune, (1613; published 1647)
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Source: Mr. Wrong
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mu_hCThhzWU
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And all we need of hell”
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and all we need of Hell.”
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